The first image shows a bucolic environment, captured from a grove along the cycle lane. The audible human voices are indicating the road just below. Those two introduction views will remain an exception to the rest because the camera won’t leave the path afterward. This choice was made to strengthen the principle of the movie: to start from a rural point and to travel on the long green way until reaching the centre of Bristol. This cinematic hike, filmed in thirteen days, was the occasion to gather a compilation of videos and landscapes in order to describe the progression into a milieu becoming more and more urban. The purpose is to question the intrinsic element of the city, to find out the spatial subdivisions and to survey the demarcations.
The empty forest is left to then access the path. One could rapidly understand that the place is maintained and frequented by noticing the benches, the bins, and the traffic density. The woodland atmosphere slightly changes while approaching the former station Avon riverside, visibly still in a good condition. There’s even a sign warning the trains danger, although the rail link between Bristol and Bath is no longer operated through that route since the sixties.
There actually is a touristic service running sometime old steam engines on this specific section.